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Superradiant instability regime of the charged Born-Infeld black hole

Shahar Hod

Phys. Rev. D - Accepted 13 October, 2026

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/p8w5-3sfv

Abstract

It is proved that charged black-hole spacetimes of the composed Einstein-Born-Infeld field theory may develop superradiant instabilities when coupled to linearized charged massive scalar fields. In particular, using analytical techniques we prove that, for a given value β‾≪1 of the dimensionless coupling parameter that characterizes the non-linear electromagnetic field theory, near-extremal Einstein-Born-Infeld black holes that satisfy the dimensionless inequalities 1−β‾2/225<Q/Qextremal<1 lie in a sufficient region for superradiant instability to perturbations of charged massive scalar fields in the large-mass μrH≫1 regime. In addition, we prove that in the strong-coupling β‾≫1 regime of the non-linear Born-Infeld field theory, charged black holes in the dimensionless regime ${{48\pi}/{\Gamma^4\big({1\over4}\big)}}<Q/Q^{\text{extremal}}<1$ lie in a sufficient region for superradiant instability when coupled to large-mass charged scalar fields. [Here {rH,Q} are respectively the horizon radius and the electric charge of the black hole, Qextremal(β‾) is the β‾-dependent charge parameter that characterizes the extremal (maximally-charged) Born-Infeld black hole, and μ is the proper mass of the scalar field].

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